Email Author Steven Leigh Morris

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Theater Reviews

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Guerillas in our Midst"

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2006 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Theater

  published December 21, 2006

  AUDITION! THE MUSICAL Between her third and 12th birthdays, 1950s child star Evelyn Rudie earned an Emmy nomination, a Walk of Fame star, and the... More >>

• Theater

  published December 14, 2006

  GO A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH CHARLES DICKENS Ebenezer Scrooge is back once more to learn that love is more important than wealth. Since Charles... More >>

• Fireworks in a Dark Sky

  published December 28, 2006

  We saw a lot of good work on local stages this year, though fewer of the bursts of light that you’d be inclined to remember and talk... More >>

• Let It Snow

  published December 21, 2006

  ’Tis the season of magical, wordless spectacles (see accompanying review on Edward Scissorhands). You have to go to Vegas to see... More >>

• A Theater Lover's Lament

  published December 7, 2006

  Watching theater across L.A. is like spending the Fourth of July behind the Hollywood sign — you gaze out over the city and see sporadic... More >>

• Mabou Mines Dollhouse

  published December 7, 2006

  The men in director Lee Breuer and performer Maude Mitchell’s bawdy, touring adaptation of Ibsen’s play tower at around 4 feet... More >>

• A Death in Moscow

  published November 23, 2006

  Sheets cover all the mirrors in Apartment 31 on Fortunatovskaya Street. The reason, Bronoslava explains, is because the spirits of the dead... More >>

• Big Deal – No, Really

  published November 23, 2006

  By this time next year, 365 of Suzan-Lori Parks’ new playlets will have received about 5,000 premieres at theaters across the United... More >>

• The Good, the Bad and the Horny

  published November 9, 2006

  Bachelor Tom Rubin is an entertainment lawyer who drafts contracts by day and does standup by night. Now he’s doing his one-man show,... More >>

• Queen of the Angels

  published November 2, 2006

  Theater publicist Kim Garfield, known for her deep voice and magnetic personality, died October 31 from complications following surgery for... More >>

• Fucking the Government

  published October 26, 2006

  As the Republican moon wanes and a majority of Americans finally seem to understand that we’ve squandered hundreds of billions of dollars... More >>

• Up in Smoke

  published October 12, 2006

  Writer-director Julien Nitzberg and composer Roger Neill’s light opera, The Beastly Bombing: A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by... More >>

• Prospecting for Beauty

  published October 5, 2006

  Here’s a 200-mile-roundtrip sojourn where you can discover for yourself how, in Southern California, you can drive along a Mojave... More >>

• Monday in the Diner With Ed

  published September 21, 2006

  Douglas Steinberg’s Nighthawks, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, takes us inside the 1940s New York diner where Edward Hopper painted... More >>

• Frankly Giving a Damn

  published September 14, 2006

  Searching for a deeper understanding of who David O. Selznick was, and what happened during the frantic week in 1939 depicted in Ron... More >>

• Going, Going, Gone With the Wind

  published September 14, 2006

  For seven days in February 1939, film producer David O. Selznick shut down production of Gone With the Wind,leaving Clark Gable and... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published September 7, 2006

  FENCES The star power behind this revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning drama is bright but never blinds us to the... More >>

• Sex, God and Little Armenians

  published August 24, 2006

  As a child in 1967, I remember sitting in the passenger seat of our family’s ’65 Ford Fairlane, driving along the back roads of... More >>

• Who Says We're Not in Kansas Anymore?

  published August 17, 2006

  On the evening of August 8, surrounded by the rustic beauty of the Los Padres National Forest, six scribes — Lee Blessing, Sherry Kramer,... More >>

• Partying Like It's 1425

  published August 3, 2006

  Love’s Labor’s Lost is so rarely produced nowadays because it explores one of the most compelling moral issues of 1425. (The... More >>

• Amateur Knights

  published July 20, 2006

  Theater as part of life — there’s a radical concept. The idea comes from Edward Wilson, a Briton who took up digs at... More >>

• A $4 Million Misunderstanding

  published July 20, 2006

  It was around 9:30 on a recent Saturday night when the mayor of Los Angeles strode into the Bonaventure Hotel’s California... More >>

• Blood and Hubris at the Paradise Motel

  published July 20, 2006

  There’s a small motel on Sunset Boulevard near Beaudry. One story, ’50s-noir stucco façade, rooms set in a kind of horseshoe... More >>

• a Nervous Smile

  published June 22, 2006

  John Belluso, confined to a wheelchair his entire life due to a bone disorder that restricted muscle strength, died earlier this year at the... More >>

• Greek Love

  published June 22, 2006

  Though Bible stories have been a source of movie blockbusters, from The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston to Mel Gibson’s... More >>